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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #30 on: December 27, 2024, 08:36:55 pm »
Hi.  I got it working.  Not exactly sure how.  I installed BeOS, OS/2, and OS/2 boot manager in the three primaries.  Then installed the BeOS boot manager.  That worked and I was able to multi-boot everything.

Then I had issues with booting FreeDOS on a logical partition.  I then deleted the boot manager from inside the OS/2 OS with the GUI LVM, moved some partitions to make a FreeDOS primary, redid the BeOS boot manager, and I can still boot OS/2.  It's all great and I'm not sure how.  I did use a fresh drive with same model, maybe some MBR code or partition table was screwed up that wasn't getting repartitioned correctly even from scratch.

Now if someone could point me in the direction of installing fix paks?  I can find information on them, but not the fixpaks themselves.  Thanks for everyone's advice on the booting.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #31 on: December 27, 2024, 11:49:01 pm »
Now if someone could point me in the direction of installing fix paks?  I can find information on them, but not the fixpaks themselves.  Thanks for everyone's advice on the booting.

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/
https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/mpts/fixes/
https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2024, 12:05:02 am »
Here's a fairly good guide, though many links are broken, it does give you the files to google or translate from ftp to https. There's also some programs floating around to bypass the need for floppies, probably on hobbesarchive, hopefully others have a better memory then me.
Edit: forgot the URL, http://web.archive.org/web/20060926004818/www.warpupdates.mynetcologne.de/english/site_contents.html

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2024, 06:48:20 am »
Thanks for those links.  I did see the one.  The major fix paks shown for a T42p are XR_D003 driver pack and XR_C005 fixpak.  These seem to be restricted.  Any good source for these?

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2024, 09:58:01 am »
Well.  I was able to install the major fixpaks successfully.  However, I installed the usb driver, and now my usb mouse doesn't work.  USB in general doesn't work.  Usb 10.162.  EDIT:  I fixed this by rem-ing the related lines in config.sys.

Also, how would I install Ethernet Intel 1000 drivers?  I have a e1000.os2 file, e1000.msg, e1000.nif, and protocol.ini.

Thanks for the help so far.  I also have an issue where I tried to install UN02334, and now it says "a previous installation of service is still pending" system must be rebooted.  On boot, I do see something about not able to call IBMCSFLK.exe.
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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2024, 04:57:14 pm »
Try Lars's USB drivers, http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/system/drivers/usb/usbdrv251.zip.
I forget the exact command, but you should have a program object MPTN or such that will allow you to install the network drivers in system setup.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #36 on: December 30, 2024, 08:03:05 pm »
USB drivers seem to work and be installed. I can still use mouse, but no usb drive yet.

The locked file device driver is loaded, happens on boot, I can't service the system with CSF because the update is still pending.  Any way to clear lending updates?

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« Reply #37 on: December 30, 2024, 08:42:03 pm »
You probably need to edit config.sys to clear the locked file driver, which leaves you wondering if it did its thing.
Now we have the unlock utility, "unlock foo.dll" will load foo.dll into memory allowing it to be replaced. Still need to reboot or reset the WPS in some cases to actually use the new DLL. Can't remember the package it came in so I'll attach it.
You will need a FAT32 driver for USB drives, https://trac.netlabs.org/fat32, you should also install warpin to install wpi packages, http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/archiver/warpin-1-0-26.zip
Note that generally, USB drives need to be formatted with CHS correct and maybe LVM info added as OS/2 can't handle large floppy format (no partition tables) over 2GB. Lars's USB stack does have a filter to overcome that limitation.
You also might want to update your kernel, https://www.os2site.com/sw/upgrades/kernel/index.html, make sure you use the same (SMP, UNI, W4) as you're currently using. Find out what you are using with the bldlevel command,
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W:\>bldlevel OS2KRNL
Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001
Signature:       @#IBM:14.204#@_SMP  IBM OS/2 Kernel
Vendor:          IBM
Revision:        14.204
File Version:    14.204
Description:     _SMP  IBM OS/2 Kernel
Unluckily you can't get that late of a kernel without ArcaOS.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #38 on: December 30, 2024, 09:20:34 pm »
I have 14.103 I believe, after updating with the C005 fixpak.

Would unlocking that driver resolve CSF pending update?

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #39 on: December 30, 2024, 09:29:12 pm »
There's 104 kernel, 105 also floating around IIRC.
Unlocking would allow you to manually update the driver.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #40 on: December 30, 2024, 10:08:21 pm »
Here is what I get in boot.  I unlocked the boot drive recursively with that utility.  Still occurs.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #41 on: December 30, 2024, 10:19:18 pm »
What happens if you manually run ibmcsflk.exe? Do you have ibmscflk.dll in o:\os2\dll? Try copying the DLL to O:\os2\install

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #42 on: December 30, 2024, 10:52:21 pm »
1 of 3.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #43 on: December 30, 2024, 10:52:48 pm »
2 of 3.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #44 on: December 30, 2024, 10:54:22 pm »
3 of 3.  I did copy that DLL and have the same result.  It seems like IBMCSFLK.LST might be locked.